Arts and Letters (ARLT) Documents

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
16 September 2013
Reflection Paper Week 3
This weeks reading dealt with Rostam and Esfandyars conflict. One view can be
said to be much like the previous story of Rostam and his ill-fated son Sohrab. Esfandyars
unfortunate f

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
28 October 2013
Reflection Paper Week 10
Chapter III of the Gulistan, or On the Excellence of Content, has to do with many
stories using hunger or eating to teach the concept of contentment. For example, in Story 8,
Sa'di ad

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
1 September 2013
Reflection Paper Week 1
Throughout the text of the Shahnameh, Ive noticed many parallels with different
aspects of world history. For example, in the explanation and depiction of the concept of
farr, one is

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
1 November 2013
Reflection Paper Week 11
In Chapter 7, On the Effects of Education, story 14 was the one that was most
interesting in my opinion, where a man went to a veterinarian to have his eye fixed but
instead became bl

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
18 September 2013
Reflection Paper Week 4
This weeks reading dealt with Layla and Majnuns tragic love story, much like the
story of Romeo and Juliet.
An interesting that I noted was when Majnuns father sought to make the pil

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
11 November 2013
Reflection Paper Week 12
Obeyd-e Zakanis book, Ethics of The Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works is quite a
handful to read! The first chapter seemed to start off quite slow in my opinion, which was
diffic

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
11 November 2013
Reflection Paper Week 13
Iskandar wrote a Mirror for Princes, Qabus Nameh in order to provide guidance
and advice for his son; this type of work can be categorized under an entire genre of
political writing

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
23 September 2013
Reflection Paper Week 5
Nizamis The Seven Princesses was a very elaborate read; it was not a tragedy like
Layla and Majnun and neither is it very similar to Khosrow and Shirins romance. The story
stands alo

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
30 September 2013
Reflection Paper Week 6
This weeks Farid Attars The Conference of the Birds was an extremely different
experience from previous readings. Not only was the structure laid out in an interesting
fashion, but t

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
13 October 2013
Reflection Paper Week 9
When you first asked what the most precious object to my in my dorm room was, my
thoughts actually immediately jumped to my roommate. She is someone I knew before
college, not very wel

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
8 September 2013
Reflection Paper Week 2
In this weeks reading, we are introduced to Rostam, the legendary Persian hero,
who actually, to me, came off as incredibly simple minded and perhaps even a little crass
and childish.

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Professor Khafipour
ARLT 100
21 October 2013
Reflection Paper Week 9
With the start of this week, we bid farewell to Attars work, the Conference of the
Birds. The epilogue was especially interesting; why did Attar choose to end such a powerful
and serio

Reflection to Because I Love You
The music I listened was Yu Chae-Has Sarang Hagi Ttaemum E, which means Because I
Love You. In this reflection paper, I will briefly talk about three features of this song that I found
more or less distinct this song in th

Yina Ma
Professor Lee, Seung - Ah
ARLT 100g
30 March 2015
Reaction Paper to The Host
When I was watching the movie The Host, the content of the movie reminded me
of two social trends in Koreas popular culture, which I learned from classes. The first
one i

Two marketing models:
B2C [Business to business]: the marketing strategy, which focuses on the logic and
features of the product with little or no personal emotion involved in the purchasing
decision.
B2B [Business to customer]: focusing on the benefits o

your understanding of texts focusing on major arguments and on
your own perspectives on the readings and raise a couple of study
questions for class discussion.
1. Macro Background: globalization and Transnationalism
2. Micro transnational families
1) Wil

Free Will and 1984 Outline
1. Introduction
a. Thesis: Winston had free will and was (although limitedly) able to act with
free will but after his encounter at the Ministry of Love, his resulting
mental condition has lost not only his ability to act with f

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P. Jordan Flack
ARLT 100
Free Will and Determinism
Questions for Take-home Final Exam
1)
Outside philosophy, it is generally assumed that if determinism is true, then we
are mistaken in believing that anyone either has free will or ever acts with free w

1. Sider
2. Hobart
a. Hobarts argument against libertarianism
i. A free action must be caused by its agents character
ii. If a free action must be caused by its agents character then
libertarianism is false
iii. Therefore, libertarianism is false
b. Free

Flack 1
P. Jordan Flack
ARLT 100
Free Will & Determinism
Prof. Vihvelin
Orwells 1984: Exploring Free Will
For years, human beings have struggled to create a single definition for the
concept of free will while others have debated whether or not we really

ARLT 100 Junky Paper Outline
(5-6 pgs.)
Prompt #1: Do drug addicts act with free will when they take the drug to which they
are addicted? (Note: NOT do addicts BECOME addicts of their own free will?)
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Articulate a thesis concerning the freedom, or la

Flack 1
P. Jordan Flack
ARLT 100
Free Will and Determinism
Prof. Vihvelin
Free Will and Drug Addiction: A Discussion
The debate over the concept of free will versus the concept of determinism has
been discussed at length and eventually arrives at examples

Judy Xinyu Cai
9450376478
Islam and the West
Olivia Harrison
In what ways have Islamic and Western civilizations come into contact since the advent of
Islam?
Islamic and Western civilizations have influenced each other in complex, intricate and
tumultuous

Xinyu CAI Judy
9450376478
Olivia Harrison
ARLT 100
Islam and the West, Spring 2015
Final take-home examination
1. Encounters.
When one considers relations between Islamic and Western societies, one instinctively thinks of
the persistent and violent milita